Outsourcing

Increase in Contracting Intelligence Jobs Raises Concerns
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, March 20, 2006; Page A03

“AllWorld Language Consultants Inc., a Rockville firm, is seeking experienced military interrogators to work in Iraq for $153,500 a year plus bonuses, with proficiency in Arabic "preferred but not required," according to Yahoo's Hot Jobs listings.
The U.S. Army element of the Multi-National Force-Iraq is looking for a private contractor to provide airborne surveillance over that country that will "provide situational awareness of the entire area of operations," according to another Web announcement.

Lockheed Martin Corp. is seeking a counterintelligence analyst to work for the Pentagon's newest intelligence agency, the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), in its Colorado Springs facility to "create and deliver briefings, write reports, and represent Counterintelligence Field Activity," according to a Web classified ad.

These positions and thousands like them are part of a growing trend at the Pentagon to contract out intelligence jobs that were formerly done primarily by service personnel and civil service employees.

But, by using contract employees, government agencies lose control over those doing this sensitive work and an element of profit is inserted into what is being done. Also, as investigations have revealed, politics and corruption may be introduced into the process…”
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Outsourcing our intelligence services.

"The Washington Post writes that the U.S. government is increasingly relying on contractors to carry out intelligence duties. As a result, government agencies lose control over those doing this sensitive work and instill profit-making motives into the work being done..."
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Pentagon hired contractor to advise on collecting information on churches, mosques, other U.S. sites

By Jonathan S. Landay. Knight Ridder Newspapers”03/20/06 "Knight Ridder" -- --

"WASHINGTON - A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., to help it collect data on houses of worship, schools, power plants and other locations in the United States. MZM Inc., headed by Mitchell Wade, also received three contracts totaling more than $250,000 to provide unspecified "intelligence services" to the White House, according to documents obtained by Knight Ridder. The White House didn't respond to an inquiry about what those intelligence services entailed…”

Do ya sense a trend here?

Bush Administration just tried to outsource mangement of 6 of our most important seaports to a country with demonstrable ties to terrorist organizations. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Mercenaries from Black Water, fresh from Iraq, were locked and loaded in New Orleans streets. The Internal Revenue Service is outsourcing tax claims processing to India. Special Operations Soldiers are quiting the military to join up with private mercenary groups becuase the pay and benefits is spectacular.

I dunno, but it seems to me that the best way to run a Fascist state is to have people do what you tell them to do without question or contradiction. No one looking over your shoulders. No pesky Constitution, Bill of Rights, or any other legal mumbo jumbo to clutter up the chain of command. These will be private contractors to the Bush Administration, not to Congress, the Supreme Court, or the American People.

Yeah, I think that would serve Fascism rather well, don't you? But wait, while we are at it, lets just take a peak at what our 'regular' homeland police are up to...

Death Raises Concern at Police Tactics
by Matthew Davis

“…Peter Kraska, an expert on police militarisation from Eastern Kentucky University, says that in the 1980s there were about 3,000 Swat team deployments annually across the US, but says now there are at least 40,000 per year…”

“…"The problem is that when you talk about the war on this and the war on that, and police officers see themselves as soldiers, then the civilian becomes the enemy." (emphasis mine)

So, in addition to the private armies and intel collectors of Bush, we also have the state represented by heavily armed, armored, police who respond more like an invading army than they do a police force.

Yeah, I think that fits Fascism as well, doesn't it?